19|05|2009

Video director and sound researcher Raquel
Castro has released a documentary about sound ecology and the
'sonic life' of people, featuring interviews with artists,
musicians, physicians, musicologists, architects and theorists
including Peter Cusack, Rafael Toral, Max Dixon, Carlos Alberto
Augusto, Janek Schaefer, Christoph Cox, Allen S. Weiss amongst
others. Castro, whose previous work includes Pro Memória,
a documentary series in which she collected oral histories of
different Portuguese communities, produced Soundwalkers to
be presented at the recent Miami Subtropics 20, Chicago's Listening
to Our Planet and the World Forum For Acoustic Ecology (WFAE)
conference in Mexico City, and now can be seen (and heard) for free
here.